Amazon has launched a new music streaming app as a part of Prime service, with more than a million songs available to users.
PRIME MUSIC WENT LINE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM THIS MORNING
Prime Music has gone live in the UK this morning, and comes as a part of Amazon Prime membership. The £79 yearly plan that gives users free same day shipping from the e-commerce giant, as well as Prime Instant Video, full access to Amazon’s existing TV and film streaming service, along with other benefits.
The United States based company launched the music service in America last year, and now it has used its database of the users in the United Kingdom’s buying habits to rebuild the app tailored for the customers overseas.
AMAZON MUSIC WILL HAVE OVER A MILLION SONGS
The app will enable users to stream over a million songs at no extra cost to the user, but it also allows them to combine them with other digital tracks that they have purchased from Amazon in the past.
This streaming service will appear within the current Amazon Music app, which is free to download. The managing director at Amazon UK, Christopher North, said that the UK costumers loved it when they added the unlimited photo storage and Prime Instant Video into Prime last year. This was all in addition to the unlimited one-day delivery items of millions of items, as well as access to over 800,000 Kindle titles that can be borrowed.
AMAZON SAYS THAT THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING
They said in many press releases that they were just getting started on making a lot of programs and promotions and the Prime Music is just the beginning. There are more than a million songs from a plethora of best-selling artists plus over a hundred Prime Playlists that are hand-build by their team of music experts. This is all at no cost to the customer.
This announcement comes jut three weeks after Apple launched its own music streaming service, Apple Music, to compete with Spotify. However, Amazon says that they are not looking to compete with Apple Music, and pointed out that Prime membership contains a series of services that benefit users with Prime Music being just one component.
